Pros
- Life long friendships formed via trauma bonding - You'll develop a healthy disrespect for toxic "positivity"
Cons
There's nothing to say that's not already been said in other reviews, other than to emphasize that AlphaSights's 3.5 rating is only as high as it is because of the tremendous amount of spam 5-starring and outright lying that its leadership does on this site. Have you noticed how all the 1 star reviews are 2000 word essays, and all the positive reviews are "Great place to kick start your career! You'll work hard, but golly gee, will it be worth it!1!" To the prospective applicants thinking of working here: Simply, don't. Unless you are facing homelessness, you have better options. Live in your parent's basement for a while, teach yourself to code, enjoy your life and wait for the job market to improve. This is a place that will give you new mental illnesses, and leave you with nothing in the way of transferrable skills, personal dignity, or faith in your fellow man. It's a mindless sweatshop that doesn't even have the decency to admit it. To the people currently working at AlphaSights, hate-scrolling Glassdoor reviews for a sense of solidarity and confirmation that you're not crazy, you are the real reason I took the time to write this review: It gets better. That first day you wake up without the panic of clients texting you overnight, of outrageous, impossible expectations for how quickly you can find people who happen to know lots about whatever random project has been thrown at you, of mortgaging your mental health and your soul to try to hit a hurdle that, best case, just resets itself again next month. That first day is bliss, and life just keeps improving from there. Save up money, network on the weekends, or just up and quit. As scary as it seems to leave your first job (and let's be honest, the only reason AlphaSights gets away with what it does is because it's everyone's first job) there are worse things than being unemployed for a bit. And one of those things is, undoubtably, working at AlphaSights. There has not been a single person I have ever know who's doing worse after leaving, or wishes they stayed longer. If you've been looking for a sign to escape, this is it. Whatever that other option is, I promise it's better.